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The series is designed to provide an outlet for scholars at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham. Mullett offers a reading of Theophylact's letter collection from the last decade of the 11th century. She employs a variety of approaches in order to characterize a work that is both a literary artifact in a long Greek tradition, and the only trace of a complex network of friends, colleagues, patrons, and clients within Byzantine Bulgaria and the empire as a whole. The letters illuminate local economic and ecclesiastical history, relations with the Slavs, and the arrival of the First Crusade. The excerpts are only in English translation. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
